Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27) - Hardcover

Lazer, Hank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0998677728 ISBN 13: 9780998677729

Publisher: Negative Capability Press, 2018

Synopsis

From Lazer’s ambitious ten-year Notebook shape-writing project, Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27) challenges the way we read and write poetry and reframes the terms of spiritual autobiography.  Though Lazer’s handwritten shape-writing presents itself most obviously and initially as a visual experience – the shape of thinking itself embodied in the improvisation of each page – this book is also infused with the overlapping ways in which we both hear and are here.  Beginning with Lazer’s fourth trip to Havana (and two noteworthy jazz-poetry concerts with saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar), music itself and the music of the shape-written poetry is crucial to this book, just as is an ever-shifting investigation of how we are here: what it means to be in a specific place.  Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, Lazer creates immediately accessible and beautifully drawn intervals of consciousness that is a unique contribution to American poetry.
 

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Review

"With Lazer’s work we have a mind, poet and artist carefully examining what it means to become alive through mobile constructions of language; what it means to leave traces; what it means to be physical while at the same time exploring what does it mean to make words become knowledge. Lazer’s work is a beautiful and tenacious embodiment of that search and discovery."

—Stephen Vincent, Book Artist & Poet, most recently, The Last 100 Days of the Presidency of Barack Obama, October 13 - January 20, 2017, Drawings & Texts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Negative Capability Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0998677728
• ISBN 13: 9780998677729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 104